NAME

       openvpn3-session-start - OpenVPN 3 Linux - Starting VPN Sessions

SYNOPSIS

       openvpn3 session-start [OPTIONS]
       openvpn3 session-start -h | --help

DESCRIPTION

       This  starts  a  new  VPN  session,  which  means  a  VPN  client  process  is started, it gathers needed
       credentials, connects to the remote server and configures a  VPN  interface  with  the  VPN  IP  address,
       network routes and possibly DNS settings on this host.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Print  usage and help details to the terminal

       -c CONFIG-FILE, --config CONFIG-FILE
              Name  of  the  configuration  profile  to  start.   The  session-start command will first look for
              matching configuration profile names pre-loaded into the configuration manager.  If not found,  it
              will attempt to load and parse a configuration file on the file system.

       -p CONFIG-DBUS-PATH, --config-path CONFIG-DBUS-PATH
              Can  be  used  instead  of  --config  where  the  D-Bus  path  to the configuration profile in the
              configuration manager is given instead.  Use openvpn3 configs-list to retrieve a list of available
              configuration paths.

       --persist-tun
              Can be used together with --config to ensure the connection will not  tear-down  the  virtual  VPN
              interface when reconnecting.  See openvpn3-config-manage for details.

       --timeout SECS
              Defines  how  long it will attempt to establish a connection before aborting.  Default is to never
              time out.

       --background
              Starts the connection in the background after basic user credentials  has  been  provided.   Using
              this  option  will  require  to  use  openvpn3  session-manage(1) for further interaction with the
              session.

       --dco BOOL
              Enable kernel based Data Channel Offload for this session only.  This moves the tunnelled  network
              traffic  to be handled inside the kernel.  This improves the processing of the network traffic and
              moves the encryption, decryption and packet authentication for the tunnelled network traffic to be
              handled inside the kernel instead of begin passed via the OpenVPN client process in user space.

              This option is only available if openvpn3-linux has been built with this support.

              WARNING:
                     This is currently a tech preview feature and is not ready for production environments.   It
                     also requires the ovpn-dco kernel module to be installed to work.

SEE ALSO

       openvpn3(1)       openvpn3-configs-list(1)       openvpn3-session-acl(1)       openvpn3-session-manage(1)
       openvpn3-session-stats(1) openvpn3-sessions-list(1)

                                                                                       OPENVPN3-SESSION-START(1)